EP0825737B1 - Procede de transmission de signaux, emetteur et recepteur pour un systeme de communication mobile - Google Patents

Procede de transmission de signaux, emetteur et recepteur pour un systeme de communication mobile Download PDF

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EP0825737B1
EP0825737B1 EP19970903657 EP97903657A EP0825737B1 EP 0825737 B1 EP0825737 B1 EP 0825737B1 EP 19970903657 EP19970903657 EP 19970903657 EP 97903657 A EP97903657 A EP 97903657A EP 0825737 B1 EP0825737 B1 EP 0825737B1
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  • the present invention relates to a signal transmission method, transmitter, receiver and spreading code synchronization method in mobile communication systems to which is applied a direct sequence code division multiple access (DS-CDMA) scheme carrying out multiple access using direct sequence.
  • DS-CDMA direct sequence code division multiple access
  • the DS-CDMA communication method is a scheme that transmits information data after spreading their bandwidth using a code with a rate much higher than the information data rate, and its research and development have been intensively conducted to be applied to cellular systems. This is because the DS-CDMA systems have such characteristics as facilitating flexible cell design which will enable the capacity in terms of the number of users to be increased as compared with the conventional frequency division multiple access (FDMA) or time division multiple access (TDMA).
  • FDMA frequency division multiple access
  • TDMA time division multiple access
  • the DS-CDMA systems include two spreading methods: One carries out spreading using a spreading code called a "short code” with a period equal to that of the information symbols; and the other carries out spreading using a spreading code called a "long code” with a period much longer than that of the information symbols.
  • a spreading code Gold codes or others are used.
  • the Gold codes consists of two M (maximum) sequences, and the Gold codes belonging to the same group can be generated by the number corresponding to its period.
  • the number of the Gold codes that can be generated is no more than that corresponding to the processing gain (PG) or spreading ratio.
  • PG processing gain
  • the same spreading code cannot be used within several cells because of interference from other cells, and this presents a reuse problem in spreading code assignment.
  • each cell can assign spreading codes to users independently of the other cells in the multicellular configuration. This is because the probability is very small that the same code is used at the same time in another cell thanks to the great number of the codes.
  • the delayed waves In the cellular systems, besides the incoming radio wave traveling through the shortest path from the transmitting point, there are delayed waves resulting from reflection and refraction due to obstacles or configuration of ground such as surrounding buildings, mountains, towers, etc. Since the delayed waves usually become interference signals against desired waves, they will degrade received characteristics. In the DS-CDMA system, the information signals are transmitted as very fast signals. Thus, when they are spread to 1 MHz band, the desired waves can be separated from delayed waves with a delay of one microsecond by carrying out correlation detection at a resolution of one microsecond. Combining these waves after demodulating independently, which is called RAKE combining, has an advantage of making full use of the power of the delayed waves.
  • the long code has various merits as described above, it has a demerit that it takes a long time to establish the synchronization of the spreading code. Specifically, a DS-CDMA receiver must establish synchronization of the phase of a spreading code replica at the receiver side with that of the spreading code in a received signal at the beginning of communications. Since the long code has a much longer spreading code phase to be searched for compared with the short code, much longer time is required for establishing the synchronization.
  • the receiver conducts the correlation detection using a matched filter as shown in Fig. 3 and a sliding correlator as shown in Fig. 4.
  • the matched filter usually includes delay elements 1 with a delay of one chip, and spreading code multipliers 2, the number of each of them corresponds to the processing gain.
  • Each of the spreading code multipliers 2 can be composed of an exclusive OR (EXOR) circuit because the spreading code replica is usually binary.
  • EXOR exclusive OR
  • a spread modulation signal which has been frequency converted to the baseband with the zero IF frequency and is input to the matched filter, is delayed by the number of times of the processing gain, and they are each multiplied by a spreading code replica fed from a spreading code replica generator 3.
  • the resultant product signals are summed up by an adder 4.
  • the output of the adder 4 takes a peak correlation value whose power is increased by a factor of processing gain from the average power obtained with asynchronous phases.
  • the matched filter detects the correlation using space integration, it has an advantage of shortening the initial acquisition time of the spreading code.
  • a multiplier 6 multiplies the spread modulation signal by a spreading code replica generated by a spreading code replica generator 5, and then an integrating/dumping circuit 7 performs integral of the resultant product by an amount of the processing gain.
  • the multiplier can be composed of an EXOR because the spreading code replica is usually binary.
  • the integral time in the integrating/dumping circuit 7 is usually one information symbol period.
  • the integrated signal is square-law detected by a square-law detector 8 to generate its amplitude component whose value undergoes threshold decision by a threshold value decision circuit 9. Thus, the a decision is made whether they are synchronized or not.
  • the matched filter requires a shorter acquisition time thanks to the space integral, but is larger in the circuit scale.
  • the sliding correlator is smaller in the circuit scale thanks to the time integral, but requires a longer acquisition time.
  • Tsc A ⁇ Q ⁇ PG ⁇ M ⁇ Tc / Nsc
  • a mobile communication system using long codes has a problem in that it takes a very long time for a mobile station to establish the acquisition of the spreading code before capturing a control channel from a base station after the mobile station is powered up.
  • a receiver To capture a channel in a cellular environment in which time synchronization is not established between base stations, a receiver must carry out code search, an operation for detecting a spreading code used for spreading the signal on a receiving channel.
  • the receiver In practice, the receiver must detect spreading codes used for spreading signals transmitted through channels from a plurality of base stations to receive one of the signals. Subsequently, the receiver establishes the acquisition, and measures the received level to determine the channel to be connected.
  • the time period taken to complete the acquisition of the channel in the cellular environment corresponds to that needed for the code search, and hence it takes an enormous time when the long spreading code is used for spreading.
  • the cell or the base station with which the receiver (mobile station) communicates changes as the receiver moves.
  • the receiver must carry out the cell search by measuring the received levels by regularly establishing the acquisition of the spreading codes on channels connected to base stations surrounding the current base station with which the receiver is communicating at present.
  • a signal transmission method for transmitting at a transmitting side in a mobile communication system, a signal comprising a plurality of information symbols doubly spread using a first spreading code and a second spreading code, said first spreading code having a first period equal to an information symbol period, and said second spreading code having a second period longer than M times the period of said information symbol period, where M is a natural number equal to or greater than one, said signal transmission method comprising the steps of:
  • a transmitter for transmitting a signal in a mobile communication system, said signal comprising a plurality of information symbols doubly spread using a first spreading code and a second spreading code, said first spreading code having a first period equal to an information symbol period, and said second spreading code having a second period longer than M times the period of said information symbol period, where M is a natural number equal to or greater than one, said transmitter comprising:
  • a receiver in a mobile communication system in which a signal comprising a plurality of information symbols doubly spread using a first spreading code and a second spreading code, said first spreading code having a first period equal to an information symbol period, and said second spreading code having a second period longer than M times the period of said information symbol period, where M is a natural number equal to or greater than one, is transmitted, said receiver comprising:
  • a mobile communication system for transmitting a signal comprising a plurality of information symbols spread using a first spreading code and a second spreading code, said first spreading code having a first period equal to an information symbol period, and said second spreading code having a second period longer than M times the period of said information symbol period, where M is a natural number equal to or greater than one, said mobile communication system comprising:
  • Fig. 1 is a diagram illustrating a fundamental operation algorithm of claims of the present invention (S1000-S1400).
  • a control channel is spread using a short code in conjunction with a long code as a spreading code.
  • a plurality of cells share the same short codes, and each base station has a different long code.
  • the long code is masked for M symbols at every fixed interval as shown in Fig. 2 so that the masked portions are spread by only the short code.
  • Each base station transmits a control channel spread by such a spreading code.
  • Fig. 6 illustrates a search method of the long code acquisition scheme in accordance with the present invention.
  • a mobile station first carries out correlation detection by a matched filter using a short code common to all the cells as a spreading code replica at S1000 of Fig. 1.
  • the correlation detection is carried out for X periods of the long code by the matched filter, and the maximum correlation output peak is detected in that time period at S1100 of Fig. 1.
  • the mobile station is connected to the base station which has sent the signal associated with the maximum correlation peak.
  • the long code phase can be identified from the maximum correlation output peak phase of the short code.
  • the search can be performed by the sliding correlator, which enables consumed power to be reduced.
  • the accuracy of the correlation detection can be improved by integrating a signal subjected to processing gain integral for a plurality of information symbols considering the polarity of the signal.
  • the conventional long code system must search over the entire chip phases of all types of long codes, the method in accordance with the present invention can sharply reduce the acquisition time.
  • the matched filter is used only for the correlation detection of the short code over the first one period of the long codes, and then the sliding correlator with a lower power consumption is used for the search of the long codes, the power saving of the correlation detector can be achieved.
  • the search process during communications is carried out as follows. First, in the acquisition process at the power up, the short code correlation peaks at the long code masked portions are detected by the matched filter using a spreading code replica of the short code. N dominant peaks out of the detected peaks are stored at step S1300 of Fig. 1. In ordinary cellular configurations, N is the number of the base station to be connected and its surrounding six base stations, which becomes seven.
  • the search time can be reduced sharply (S1400 of Fig. 1).
  • This search time is obtained assuming that no thermal noise or interference signal is present, and hence that an error detection probability is zero.
  • the search time must be set longer to obtain a satisfactory synchronization detection probability. Taking account of this, however, it is obvious that the acquisition time can be greatly reduced in the present invention as compared with the conventional serial search of the long codes.
  • Fig. 9 illustrates the operation algorithm associated with a spreading code synchronization method of an aspect of the present invention.
  • the mobile station first carries out correlation detection between the received signal and the short code (first spreading code) used as the spreading code replica to detect the phase of the received long code (second spreading code) from the timing of the maximum peak at step S2000.
  • the operation is termed "long code phase detection” from now on.
  • the mobile station detects, for the detected received long code phase, the correlation between the received signal and a code obtained by multiplying the long code and short code (called “long code short code” from now on), which is used as the spreading code replica, in order to identify the types of the received long code at step S2100.
  • the procedures of steps S2100-S2400 will be called “long code identification” below.
  • detected correlation values of respective long codes are stored in a memory at step S2200, and the maximum correlation value is selected at step S2300.
  • a threshold value decision is made for the maximum correlation value at step S2400. If the maximum correlation value exceeds the threshold value, a decision is made that the present spreading code replica is the received spreading code, thus completing the spreading code synchronization. Unless the maximum correlation value exceeds the threshold value, the long code identification is repeated as shown in Fig. 9, or the spreading code synchronization detection is carried out after changing the long code at step S2500. After completing the correlation detection with the entire long codes defined in the system, a decision is made that the long code which gives the maximum correlation value is the very long code used for spreading the received signal. In the foregoing description in connection with Fig. 9 and others, the operation is described in the case where the mobile station decides the cell to be connected at the initial stage of the communication.
  • the mobile station can also deal with the search of the contiguous cells for carrying out the handover by setting the number of the phases to be detected in the long code phase detection to the number of the cells, and by making a decision that the types of the long codes determined through the correlation detection in the long code phase identification are the long codes used by the contiguous cells of which the currently connected cell notifies.
  • Fig. 10 illustrates the operation algorithm of a spreading code synchronization method of an aspect of the present invention.
  • the threshold value decision is made of the maximum correlation value which is detected using the respective long code short code as the spreading code replica.
  • the threshold value here is determined in terms of the correlation peak obtained in the long code phase detection as illustrated in examples 1-3 in Fig. 10, or in terms of the correlation peak and the average value of the remaining correlations as in example 4. This makes it possible to set a threshold value matching the received signal level at the mobile station (S3000-S3100).
  • the present invention can also be effectively applied to the case where correlation values are detected in the long code identification decision at step S3200 using the long codes short code as the spreading code replica, and the correlation values are sequentially subjected to the threshold value decision.
  • the mobile station can also achieve the search of the contiguous cells for carrying out handover by making identification decision using the threshold values corresponding to the respective peak values.
  • Fig. 11 illustrates the operation algorithm of the receiver of an aspect of the present invention, which relates to the search mode for implementing the spreading code synchronization with the contiguous cells.
  • This algorithm selects the handover cell in accordance with the magnitude of the received power which must be actually decided by the resultant total received power of signals received through the multipaths from the respective cells.
  • the profiles of the multipaths that is, the received power and phases of the paths vary, it is necessary for measuring the sum total of the received power of the entire paths to detect the delays of the multipaths of the contiguous cells at a fixed interval.
  • the multipath search in the contiguous cell is carried out as follows, where B is the number of the contiguous cells.
  • B is the number of the contiguous cells.
  • B correlation peak detected phases are obtained by the long code synchronized phase detection at steps S4000 and S4100, and the long codes are detected which correspond to the B correlation peak detected phases at step S4200.
  • the presence and absence of the multipaths is detected by detecting the long code correlation at phases around each of the B synchronized phases at step S4300.
  • the handover cell is determined from the resultant power of the multipaths of the B cells at step S4400.
  • the multipath search must be carried out periodically, in which case of the present invention, the long code synchronized phase detection using the mask symbols is skipped in the second and the following multipath searches. Instead, the search is carried out around the previous multipath positions at step S4500. This makes it possible to save power when the matched filter consuming much current is used for the long code synchronized phase detection.
  • the multipath search is not performed at receiving timings of these symbols. This is because the multipaths cannot be identified which have a delay exceeding the short code period equal to the information symbol period when the spreading has been performed by only the short code.
  • Fig, 12 illustrates the operation associated with a spreading code synchronization method in accordance with an aspect of the present invention.
  • the received signals from the cells are usually received with different delay profiles of the multipaths.
  • peaks due to multipaths are decided by detecting correlation peak groups which present in a particular time range around the maximum correlation peak obtained by the long code phase detection as shown in Fig. 12.
  • the long code identification after this detects correlations for the plurality of the correlation peaks in parallel, and uses the correlation values as illustrated in Fig. 12 as overall decision materials.
  • the contiguous cell search during the handover is achieved by carrying out the foregoing operation by detecting the individual peaks of the multipaths for the correlation peaks corresponding to the cells.
  • the present invention can improve the detection accuracy of the spreading code synchronization under the multipath environment.
  • Fig. 13 illustrates the operation associated with a spreading code synchronization method according to an aspect of the present invention.
  • This aspect of the present invention carries out the long code synchronized phase (timing) detection and the long code identification at the same time except at the start of the spreading code synchronization detection.
  • the initial long code synchronized phase detection is carried out at first. Once the synchronized phase has been detected, the long code identification is started, although the long code synchronized phase detection is continued throughout the operation.
  • the long code synchronized phase detection can improve its accuracy by repeating the averaging as shown in Fig. 13, or restart the synchronized phase detection after the reset of the averaging. If the long code is not identified, and hence the spreading code synchronization cannot be detected, the long code synchronized phase is updated periodically.
  • Fig. 14 illustrates the operation associated with a spreading code synchronization method according to an aspect of the present invention.
  • the correlation peak obtained from the current channel is also included (the signal from BS1 in Fig. 14).
  • the correlation peak of the current channel can be identified by detecting timings of the correlation peaks with respect to the long code phase of the current channel.
  • the mobile station carries out long code identifications for the correlation peaks other than the correlation peak of the current channel.
  • Fig. 15 illustrates the operation associated with a signal transmission method according to an aspect of the present invention.
  • increasing the number of mask symbols assigned to one long code period enables the correlation averaging under the presence of noise, interface and fading to be achieved in one long code period, thereby improving the accuracy of the long code synchronized phase detection.
  • Fig. 16 illustrates the operation associated with a spreading code synchronization method according to an aspect of the present invention.
  • the clock of a receiver deviates from that of a transmitter, the synchronized position seems to shift from the viewpoint of the receiver because the sampling timing of the received signal shifts with time. Accordingly, the long code identification will come to be made at phases deviating from the true synchronized phase detected by the long code synchronized phase detection as time elapses. This will degrade the accuracy and speed of the spreading code synchronization.
  • the long code identification is implemented by correlators 31 as shown in Fig. 16.
  • the correlators 31 have their phases shifted by ⁇ which corresponds to aTc, where a is a real number and Tc is a chip period, and carries out the correlation detection in parallel with the detecting operation by a circuit 30 for detecting correlation at the synchronized phase detected by the long code synchronized phase detection (in Fig. 16, phases are shifted by ⁇ Tc/2 and ⁇ Tc).
  • a maximum peak detector 32 detects the maximum correlation value from a plurality of correlation values obtained, and a threshold value comparator 33 uses them for making the long code identifying decision.
  • a “short code” refers to the “first spreading code” of the claims
  • a “long code” refers to the “second spreading code” of the claims
  • shared short codes refer to the “shared first spreading codes in the first spreading code group, which are used in common by the base stations”
  • group codes refer to the "unshared first spreading codes corresponding to the respective second spreading codes used by the base stations”.
  • Figs. 23A and 23B illustrate a transmission frame structure in accordance with a signal transmission method according to an aspect of the present invention, where N (#1 to #N) is the number of the long codes belonging to long code groups.
  • N #1 to #N
  • a case will be described in which the entire long codes are divided into A groups, that is, the number of long codes per group is N/A.
  • Each base station decides a group code in accordance with the long code used.
  • Each base station transmits at its transmission timing a group code #X corresponding to one of the long code groups such as a group code #1 when using one of the long codes #1-#(N/A), a group code #2 when using one of the long codes #(N/A+1)-#(2N/A), and so on.
  • each base station carries out transmission as follows depending on the long code it employs.
  • the long code groups can be represented in terms of transmission patterns of the group code or codes (numbers).
  • the example 1 corresponds to a case which arranges the entire transmission patterns using a single group code in the example 2.
  • the transmission timings of the group code coincide with the transmission timings of the shared short code at which the long code is masked.
  • the transmission timings have a merit as follows. Using orthogonal code sequences as the short code group can keep orthogonality between transmission channels of the base stations. Masking the long code, however, will corrupt the orthogonality at the mask timings, thereby resulting in interference to other channels. This holds true for the transmission of the group codes. Thus, the occurrence frequency of the interference will be reduced by matching the timings of masking the long codes, that is, by matching the transmission timings of the shared short codes and those of the group codes.
  • these timings can be set at any known timings at the mobile station side. Furthermore, the number of transmission times of the shared short code per one long code period and that of the group code can be freely set.
  • Fig. 24 illustrates an algorithm of a spreading code synchronization (cell search) method associated with an aspect of the present invention.
  • the mobile station detects the received timing of the long code at step S5100 by detecting correlations between the received signal and the shared short code in accordance with the long code synchronized phase detection of Figs. 7, 17 and 20. Then, the mobile station obtains at step S5100 the received timings of a group code, which are known from the received timing of the long code. Subsequently, the mobile station detects at step S5200 the correlation between the received signal and each of A' group codes at the obtained timings.
  • the correlation becomes maximum for the group code included in the received signal when comparing the correlations obtained by using the group codes as a replica code.
  • the mobile station detects the correlation values at multiple numbers (X) of the group code received timings equal to or greater than the repetition period T of the transmission pattern, and stores them in the memory.
  • the correlation values obtained are represented by S a ⁇ x where a is the number of a group code used for the correlation detection, satisfying 1 ⁇ a ⁇ A', x is a serial number corresponding to the received timings of the group codes, satisfying 1 ⁇ x ⁇ X, and the correlation values are those after the square-law detection, hence S ⁇ 0.
  • the transmission patterns of group codes for respective long code groups are represented as P i ⁇ j where i denotes the long code groups and 1 ⁇ i ⁇ A, and j denotes the transmitted timings and 1 ⁇ j ⁇ T.
  • i denotes the long code groups and 1 ⁇ i ⁇ A
  • j denotes the transmitted timings and 1 ⁇ j ⁇ T.
  • the mobile station obtains the correlation sum D(i) for the transmission pattern candidates after correlation detection.
  • the mobile station can detect the number of the group code the base station has transmitted by comparing the magnitude of D(i), thereby deciding the long code group including long code candidates to be used in the next long code identification at step (S5400).
  • the long code identification is carried out as in the foregoing spreading code synchronization methods of the present invention at step S5500, the number of long codes to be identified is reduced to N/A from the conventional number N. This makes it possible to reduce the time taken for the identification decision, and hence the total time taken for the spreading code synchronization.
  • Fig. 26 illustrates the algorithm of the spreading code synchronization method associated with an aspect of the present invention.
  • symbols spread by only a shared short code are placed at the same intervals (L/n chip intervals) for every one long code period (L chips).
  • L/n chip intervals The basic operation of a mobile station corresponding to this frame is illustrated in the lower part of Fig. 26.
  • the timing of the received long code is detected from the timing giving the maximum correlation values between the received signal and the shared short code, which are detected as in the spreading code synchronization method in connection with Fig. 24.
  • the section for observing the correlation values can be set at L/n chips at the shortest.
  • the averaging of the correlations which is carried out for the purpose of improving the accuracy of the correlations detected by averaging the noise or interference, to obtain the average of the correlation values for one long code period (L chip period) in the other spreading code synchronization methods according to the present invention
  • the averaging of the correlation values in this case can be achieved at every L/n chip interval.
  • the aspect of the present invention has an advantage of reducing the memory capacity by a factor of n which is required for storing the correlations in the long code timing detection.
  • the long code timing obtained has n ambiguities.
  • symbol #1 spread by the shared short code is located at the initial position of the long code. If the mobile station can detect the received timing of the symbol #1 spread by the shared short code, this will uniquely determine the long code timing.
  • the timings of receiving the symbol #1 will occur at n timings such as Tm, Tm+L/n chip periods, Tm+2L/n chip periods, ..., and Tm+(n-1)L/n chip periods. This ambiguity of received timings of the long code is cleared up in the process of identifying the long code.
  • detecting the correlations between the received signal and the replicas of the long code at the phases X1+L/n, X1+2L/n, ..., X1+(n-1)L/n besides X1 makes it possible to identify one of the correlation values having the greatest value (that is, the spreading code which has been established) as long as the long code replicas are the same as the long code which spreads the received signal, where X1 is the synchronized chip phase of the long code (the correlation detection time of the long code #1 in Fig. 26) which is obtained from the time Tm of receiving the symbol spread by the shared short code, which Tm in turn is obtained in the long code timing detection.
  • Fig. 5 shows a code spreading processor in a forward link transmitter in a base station of a cellular system, as an example of the code spreading scheme of the mobile communication system to which the present invention is applied.
  • the same long code is employed in common in each base station to facilitate handover. This enables the signal obtained by bundling together the control channels and traffic channels carrying out communications to be spread using the same long code, thereby enabling the long code spreading portion to be used in common.
  • all the other traffic channels must be spread by the first spreading code (short code) and the second spreading code (long code) throughout the entire time, which is implemented by the code spreading scheme as shown in Fig. 5.
  • the control channel information signal and the traffic channel information signals are each spread by first spreading codes which are fed from first spreading code (short code) generators 11, and which are different from one another and have a period equal to the information symbol period. Subsequently, only the control channel information symbol is spread by a third spreading code which is generated by a third spreading code (long code masked portion complex conjugate code) generator 12 and which is a complex conjugate of the long code (second spreading code) used in common for spreading.
  • the signals of the entire channels are added at appropriate timings by an adder 13, and then spread by the second spreading code fed from a second spreading code (long code) generator 14, thereby being output as a spread modulation signal.
  • a timing controller 15 controls the operation timings of the generators.
  • the reference numeral 16 designates multipliers.
  • control channel information has been multiplied in advance for the M information symbols by the complex conjugate code of the long code used in common for spreading, and then is multiplied along with the other traffic channels by the long code.
  • the spreading by the long code is canceled out in the mask portions, resulting in spreading only by the short code.
  • This configuration enables the long code spreading portion to be used in common to the entire control channels and traffic channels in the base station transmitter.
  • the present invention relates to the spreading code synchronization scheme of the long code which is carried out at with two stages of the spreading code synchronization method.
  • the first step locates the spreading code position, and the second step identifies the type of the spreading code, that is, the base station.
  • Fig. 7 is a block diagram illustrating a function at the power up of the mobile station.
  • the spreading code replica fed to a matched filter 21 whose input is a received spread modulation signal is assumed to be a short code placed at the long code masked portions.
  • the short code is shared by the base stations and is fed from the short code replica generator 22.
  • the matched filter 21 detects the correlation between the received spread modulation signal and the spreading code replica over N long code periods, and a maximum correlation output detector 23 detects the chip phase giving a maximum correlation output.
  • the base station determines in advance the long code phase following the long code masked portion, that is, the code phase spread by only the short code. Accordingly, the long code phase can be determined by detecting a maximum correlation peak phase by inputting to a maximum correlation peak chip phase detector 24 the output of the maximum correlation output detector 23 and the output of the short code replica generator 22.
  • the second spreading code having the maximum correlation value must be determined by sequentially performing correlation detection on the codes obtained by multiplying the first spreading code by A long codes (A is a natural number) in the second spreading code group determined in advance in the system.
  • the long code generated by a long code replica generator 25 which sequentially switching the long code types is multiplied by the short code fed from the short code replica generator 22.
  • the product is multiplied by the spread modulation signal by a multiplier 26, followed by an integrating/dumping circuit 27.
  • a threshold value decision circuit 28 makes a threshold decision, thereby identifying the long code type.
  • the signal exceeding the threshold value is adopted as one whose synchronization decision has been established, and is supplied to a well-known demodulator/RAKE combiner.
  • the long code replica generator 25 carries out the initial set of the spreading code phase in response to the detection signal fed from the maximum correlation peak chip phase detector 24, and switches the long code types in response to the signal which is fed from the threshold value decision circuit 28, and whose level is below the threshold value.
  • Fig. 8 is a functional block diagram of a mobile station which searches the cell (base station) to which the channel is to be switched next with the movement of the mobile station. It carries out over the N long code periods the correlation detection of the short code at the portions in which the long code is masked as in Fig. 7. In Fig. 8, however, a detector 23A detects B dominant correlation outputs in descending order of magnitude from the output of the matched filter 21, and a detector/memory 24A detects the chip phases of the B dominant long codes and stores them. In addition, since the information about the long code types to be searched has been provided in advance to a long code replica generator 25A by the base station over the current control channel, the correlation detection and synchronization decision are made for B spreading codes. Thus, received signal levels are detected for the correlation outputs associated with B contiguous cells, followed by specifying the base station to which the channel is to be switched next.
  • Fig. 17 is a block diagram of a system corresponding to three examples according to the invention, which operates as follows: In a first example corresponding to the method in connection with Fig. 9.
  • the synchronization detection is completed if a comparator 41 makes a decision that the maximum value exceeds a threshold value, otherwise the acquisition is continued.
  • Fig. 18 is a block diagram corresponding to the method in connection with Fig. 11, and operates as follows:
  • Figs . 9A and 19B are block diagrams corresponding to the method in connection with Fig. 12, which operates as follows.
  • Fig. 20 is a block diagram corresponding to the method in connection with Fig. 13, which operates as follows.
  • Fig. 21 is a block diagram corresponding to the method in connection with Fig. 14, which operates as follows.
  • Fig. 5 illustrates them, in which the timing controller 15 has a plurality of mask symbols generated at various timings.
  • Fig. 22 is another example of a block diagram corresponding to the method in connection with Fig. 15, which operates as follows.
  • Figs. 25A and 25B show the synchronization detector of the spreading code synchronization method associated with the method in connection with Fig. 24.
  • a long code timing detector 90 employs a shared short code replica generator 91 instead of the short code replica generator 81 because it uses group codes in addition to shared short codes, as the short codes.
  • a memory 84 in the long code timing detector 90 outputs the received timings of a signal spread by a known group code in the received signal, in response to the received timings of the long code which gives the maximum correlation.
  • Group code replica generators 93 are provided by the number of group codes (three in Figs.
  • a long code group timing detector 92 in a long code group timing detector 92, and generate group code replicas to be multiplied by a received signal at received timings of the corresponding group codes fed from the memory 84.
  • the resultant product signals are integrated over one symbol period by integrating/dumping circuits 94, and square-law detected by square-law detectors 95.
  • the resultant square-law detected values of the correlation integrals associated with the group codes are stored in a memory 96. The foregoing operation is performed on a plurality of signals spread by received group codes, and the results are stored in the memory 96.
  • a detector 97 obtains, in accordance with the transmission patterns of group code candidates, correlation value sums of the square-law detected values of the correlation integrals whose number equals (the number of the group codes output from the memory 96) ⁇ (the number of times of correlation detection). The method for obtaining them was described before in connection with Fig. 24.
  • a selector 98 compares the correlation value sums whose number equals the number of transmission patterns of the group code candidates obtained, and selects the pattern giving the maximum correlation value.
  • a long code group detector 99 detects a long code group including the long code for spreading the received signal from the pattern output from the selector 98. Then, the spreading code synchronization detection proceeds to the long code identification.
  • a long code identification circuit 100 The operation of a long code identification circuit 100 is the same as the foregoing spreading code synchronization method in accordance with the present invention, in which the long code is detected as follows: First, a multiplier multiplies the received signal by the code obtained by multiplying the long code fed from a long code replica generator 101 by a short code fed from a shared short code replica generator 91; second, an integrating/dumping circuit 102 integrates the resultant product and a square-law detector 103 square-law detects the integral output; and finally a threshold value decision circuit 104 makes a threshold decision.
  • the operation of the threshold value decision circuit 104 is the same as that of the threshold value decision circuit 28 of Fig.
  • a threshold value determiner 105 is the same as that of the threshold value determiner 42 of Fig. 17.
  • the long code candidates in the long code replica generator 101 are limited to those belonging to the long code group obtained by the long code group detector described above.
  • Figs. 27A and 27B show a synchronization detector of the spreading code synchronization method according to the diagram in connection with Fig. 26. It differs from the spreading code synchronization method of Fig. 7 in the following.
  • a long code timing detector 106 observes correlation peaks at every L/n chip periods so that the received timing is detected of symbols spread by a shared short code at every interval of L/n chip periods. This enables the capacity of the memory 82 to be reduced.
  • a long code identification circuit 100 in which n long code replica generators 101 are supplied with initial set values of the long code phase through (n-1) delay circuits 107, detects in parallel the correlations between the received signal and the codes obtained by multiplying the long code replicas whose phases are shifted by an amount of L/n from one another by the short code fed from a shared short code replica generator 91. Then, a maximum correlation value selector 108 selects the maximum correlation value, and a threshold value decision circuit 104 makes a threshold value decision of the maximum correlation value.
  • the mobile station in the long code system in which the base stations are asynchronous, can achieve high speed, high accuracy spreading code synchronization of a forward control channel. Furthermore, since the matched filter is used only for the initial short code search, and a sliding correlator is used for the long code search thereafter, the consumed power by the entire spreading code synchronization detector does not increase so much.

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La vitesse de synchronisation de code à étalement de spectre d'une voie de commande descendante est améliorée. Les spectres d'un signal d'information de voie de commande et de chaque signal d'information de voie de communication sont étalés en utilisant une première série de différents codes d'étalement de spectre présentant des périodes répétitives de périodes de symboles d'information provenant de chaque section d'élaboration (11) du premier code à étalement de spectre (code court). En conséquence, seul le spectre du signal d'information de voie de commande est étalé à partir d'une section de génération (12) d'un troisième code d'étalement de spectre (code complexe conjugué d'une section écran de code long). Les signaux de toutes les voies sont ensuite additionnés selon un rythme de base adéquat par un additionneur (13), le spectre de la sortie de l'additionneur (B) est étalé en utilisant une deuxième série de code d'étalement de spectre à partir d'une deuxième section (14) de génération de code d'étalement de spectre et le signal à spectre étalé est produit sous la forme d'un signal modulé à étalement.

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  1. Procédé de transmission de signaux destiné à transmettre, au niveau d'un côté de transmission dans un système de communication mobile, un signal comprenant une pluralité de symboles d'informations à double étalement en utilisant un premier code d'étalement et un deuxième code d'étalement, ledit premier code d'étalement ayant une première période égale à une période de symbole d'informations, et ledit deuxième code d'étalement ayant une seconde période plus longue que M fois la période de ladite période de symbole d'informations, où M est un entier naturel égal ou supérieur à un, ledit procédé de transmission de signaux comprenant les étapes consistant à :
    - au niveau dudit côté de transmission, masquer ledit deuxième code d'étalement pour M symboles à des intervalles synchronisés avec ladite seconde période lors d'un double étalement dudit signal ;
    - au niveau d'un côté de réception, détecter le temps de réception dudit deuxième code d'étalement à partir d'un signal reçu pour M symboles au cours desquels ledit deuxième code d'étalement est masqué (S1200).
  2. Procédé de transmission de signaux selon la revendication 1, dans lequel ledit premier code d'étalement est commun à chaque station de base faisant partie dudit système de communication mobile, et ledit deuxième code d'étalement est différent d'une station de base à l'autre.
  3. Procédé de transmission de signaux selon la revendication 2, comprenant en outre l'étape consistant à :
    - effectuer une détection par corrélation entre ledit signal reçu et des codes obtenus en multipliant ledit premier code d'étalement par les deuxièmes codes d'étalement utilisés par chaque station de base, où ladite détection par corrélation est démarrée à partir du temps auquel un signal de sortie de corrélation maximale est obtenu dans une détection par corrélation entre ledit premier code d'étalement et ledit signal reçu (S2000) ; et
    - déterminer le deuxième code d'étalement donnant une valeur de corrélation maximale en tant que ledit deuxième code d'étalement utilisé pour étaler ledit signal reçu.
  4. Procédé de transmission de signaux selon la revendication 3, dans lequel une recherche est poursuivie jusqu'à ce que la valeur de corrélation maximale entre ledit signal reçu et lesdits codes obtenus en multipliant ledit premier code d'étalement par ledit deuxième code d'étalement dépasse une valeur seuil T prédéterminée (S2400).
  5. Procédé de transmission de signaux selon la revendication 4, dans lequel la valeur seuil T est déterminée en fonction de la valeur de corrélation maximale entre ledit signal reçu et ledit premier code d'étalement (S3100).
  6. Procédé de transmission de signaux selon la revendication 2, comprenant en outre les étapes consistant à :
    - effectuer un traitement de détection par corrélation entre ledit signal reçu et ledit premier code d'étalement ; et
    - effectuer une détection par corrélation de manière séquentielle sur des codes obtenus en multipliant le premier code d'étalement par A codes d'étalement des deuxièmes codes d'étalement utilisés par chaque station de base, où A est un entier naturel, afin de déterminer le deuxième code d'étalement donnant la valeur de corrélation maximale, où ladite détection par corrélation est démarrée à partir du temps auquel une valeur de corrélation maximale est détectée dans ledit traitement de détection par corrélation.
  7. Procédé de transmission de signaux selon la revendication 6, comprenant en outre les étapes consistant à :
    - stocker B positions de temps dans un ordre de grandeur décroissant des valeurs de corrélation dominantes détectées dans ledit traitement de détection par corrélation, où B est un entier naturel (S4100) ;
    - effectuer une détection par corrélation, de manière séquentielle entre un signal reçu et des codes obtenus en multipliant ledit premier code d'étalement par B codes d'étalement desdits deuxièmes codes d'étalement respectifs de stations de base contiguës à une station de base actuelle avertie par la station de base actuelle, où ladite détection par corrélation est démarrée à partir du temps stocké ; et
    - détecter quels deuxièmes codes d'étalement correspondent aux B positions de temps.
  8. Procédé de transmission de signaux selon la revendication 2, dans lequel deux symboles de masque ou plus destinés à masquer lesdits deuxièmes codes d'étalement sont fournis par intermittence au cours d'une période de deuxième code d'étalement.
  9. Procédé de transmission de signaux selon la revendication 8, dans lequel les rythmes de transmission desdits symboles de masque sont réglés à des intervalles irréguliers connus à l'avance au niveau du côté de réception.
  10. Procédé de transmission de signaux selon la revendication 9, dans lequel la phase du deuxième code d'étalement reçu est décidée uniquement conformément aux rythmes reçus desdits symboles de masque disposés de manière irrégulière.
  11. Procédé de transmission de signaux selon la revendication 8, dans lequel ledit deuxième code d'étalement est masqué n fois au cours de sa période L, à des intervalles irréguliers de L/n.
  12. Procédé de transmission de signaux selon l'une quelconque des revendications 2, 8, 9 et 11, comprenant en outre l'étape consistant à :
    - transmettre à un rythme prédéterminé un signal étalé par un premier code d'étalement non partagé correspondant au deuxième code d'étalement utilisé par chacune des stations de base.
  13. Procédé de transmission de signaux selon la revendication 12, comprenant en outre les étapes consistant à :
    - détecter le rythme de réception dudit deuxième code d'étalement en détectant la corrélation entre ledit signal reçu et un premier code d'étalement partagé commun à chaque station de base (S5000) ;
    - détecter un groupe de deuxièmes codes d'étalement comportant le deuxième code d'étalement utilisé pour étaler ledit signal reçu (S5400) en détectant une corrélation entre ledit signal reçu et des premiers codes d'étalement non partagés de chacune des stations de base à un rythme reçu dudit signal étalé par ledit premier code d'étalement non partagé et en déterminant le premier code d'étalement non partagé donnant une valeur de corrélation maximale, ledit rythme de réception étant obtenu à partir dudit rythme reçu dudit deuxième code d'étalement (S5200, S5300); et
    - détecter une corrélation entre ledit signal reçu et des codes d'étalement obtenus en multipliant ledit premier code d'étalement partagé par des deuxièmes codes d'étalement inclus dans ledit groupe de deuxièmes codes d'étalement détecté, afin de d'identifier le deuxième code d'étalement utilisé pour étaler ledit signal reçu à partir des grandeurs des valeurs de corrélation (S5500).
  14. Procédé de transmission de signaux selon la revendication 11, comprenant en outre les étapes consistant à :
    - détecter un rythme reçu d'un signal étalé uniquement par ledit premier code d'étalement sur la base d'un rythme donnant une valeur de corrélation maximale obtenue en détectant une corrélation entre ledit signal reçu et ledit premier code d'étalement à chaque intervalle des périodes L/n ;
    - détecter n candidats de rythme reçus dudit deuxième code d'étalement qui sont décalés par une quantité des périodes L/n entre eux, sur la base dudit rythme reçu dudit signal étalé uniquement par ledit premier code d'étalement ; et
    - détecter une corrélation entre ledit signal reçu et les codes obtenus en multipliant ledit premier code d'étalement par des deuxièmes codes d'étalement utilisés par chacune des stations de base à des phases synchronisées avec les n candidats de rythme reçus détectés dudit deuxième code d'étalement, afin d'identifier le deuxième code d'étalement utilisé pour étaler ledit signal reçu à partir de grandeurs des valeurs de corrélation et, afin de déterminer ledit rythme reçu dudit deuxième code d'étalement à partir desdits n candidats de rythme reçus dudit deuxième code d'étalement.
  15. Procédé de transmission de signaux selon l'une quelconque des revendications 3 à 7, 13 et 14, dans lequel la détection par corrélation entre ledit premier code d'étalement et ledit signal reçu, et la détection par corrélation entre ledit signal reçu et lesdits codes obtenus en multipliant lesdits deuxièmes codes d'étalement par ledit premier code d'étalement sont effectuées en parallèle.
  16. Procédé de transmission de signaux selon l'une quelconque des revendications 3 à 7, 10, 13 et 14, dans lequel, dans un mode de recherche de station de base contiguë consistant à déterminer une station de base à laquelle il faut se connecter au moment d'un transfert intercellulaire au cours de communications, lors d'une détection de la phase synchronisée dudit deuxième code d'étalement de stations de base contiguës en utilisant des valeurs de corrélation entre ledit premier code d'étalement et ledit signal reçu, des phases synchronisées sans la phase synchronisée d'une station de base actuelle (BS1 sur la figure 14) sont sélectionnées en tant que candidats de phases synchronisées desdites stations de base contiguës à déterminer.
  17. Procédé de transmission de signaux selon l'une quelconque des revendications 3 à 7, 13 et 14, dans lequel, lorsqu'il existe une déviation entre les horloges d'un émetteur et d'un récepteur, pour effectuer une détection par corrélation entre ledit signal reçu et des codes obtenus en multipliant ledit premier code d'étalement par ledit deuxième code d'étalement, des corrélations sont obtenues en parallèle en utilisant une pluralité de corrélateurs dont des phases sont décalées entre elles d'une quantité Δ correspondant à axTc, où a est un nombre réel et Tc est une période de puce.
  18. Procédé de transmission de signaux selon l'une quelconque des revendications 3 à 7 et 13 à 17, dans lequel des corrélations sont relevées entre ledit signal reçu et des codes obtenus en multipliant ledit premier code d'étalement par lesdits deuxièmes codes d'étalement en parallèle à une pluralité de positions de crête de la corrélation entre ledit signal reçu et ledit premier code d'étalement provoqués par trajets multiples.
  19. Émetteur destiné à transmettre un signal dans un système de communication mobile, ledit signal comprenant une pluralité de symboles d'informations à double étalement utilisant un premier code d'étalement et un deuxième code d'étalement, ledit premier code d'étalement ayant une première période égale à une période de symbole d'informations, et ledit deuxième code d'étalement ayant une seconde période plus longue que M fois la période de ladite période de symbole d'informations, où M est un entier naturel égal ou supérieur à un, ledit émetteur comprenant :
    - un moyen de masquage (11 à 16) destiné à masquer ledit deuxième code d'étalement pour M symboles à des intervalles synchronisés avec ladite seconde période lors d'un double étalement dudit signal.
  20. Émetteur selon la revendication 19, dans lequel ledit moyen de masquage comprend :
    - un premier moyen d'étalement de code (11, 16) destiné à étaler les signaux de tous les canaux utilisant des premiers codes d'étalement qui diffèrent entre eux, ledit premier groupe de codes d'étalement étant commun à des stations de base respectives et ayant une période égale à une période de symbole d'informations ;
    - un second moyen d'étalement de code (12, 15) destiné à étaler pour M symboles, un ou plusieurs signaux d'étalement délivrés à partir dudit premier moyen d'étalement de code (16) en utilisant un troisième code d'étalement, ledit troisième code d'étalement étant une conjuguée complexe d'un deuxième code d'étalement ;
    - un moyen d'ajout (13) destiné à ajouter, à des rythmes appropriés, des signaux sur des canaux étalés par ledit premier moyen d'étalement de code (16), et des signaux d'un ou plusieurs canaux étalés par ledit second moyen d'étalement de code (12, 15) ; et
    - un troisième moyen d'étalement de code (14) destiné à étaler les signaux des canaux sortis à partir dudit moyen d'ajout (13) en utilisant ledit deuxième code d'étalement.
  21. Récepteur dans un système de communication mobile dans lequel un signal comprenant une pluralité de symboles d'informations à double étalement utilisant un premier code d'étalement et un deuxième code d'étalement, ledit premier code d'étalement ayant une première période égale à une période de symbole d'informations, et ledit deuxième code d'étalement ayant une seconde période plus longue que M fois la période de ladite période de symbole d'informations, où M est un entier naturel égal ou supérieur à un, est transmis, ledit récepteur comprenant :
    - un moyen de réception destiné à recevoir ledit signal à double étalement transmis dans lequel ledit code d'étalement est masqué pour M symboles à des intervalles synchronisés avec ladite seconde période ; et
    - un moyen de détection (21 à 24) destiné à détecter le temps de réception dudit deuxième code d'étalement, en utilisant le signal reçu pour M symboles au cours desquels ledit deuxième code d'étalement est masqué.
  22. Récepteur selon la revendication 21, dans lequel ledit moyen de détection comprend un premier moyen de détection par corrélation (21 à 24) destiné à effectuer un traitement de détection par corrélation entre ledit signal reçu et ledit premier code d'étalement, et
    - ledit récepteur comprend en outre un second moyen de détection par corrélation (25 à 28) destiné à effectuer une détection par corrélation de manière séquentielle sur des codes obtenus par un moyen de compréhension destiné à multiplier le premier code d'étalement par A codes d'étalement des deuxièmes codes d'étalement utilisés par chacune des stations de base, où A est un entier naturel, afin de déterminer le deuxième code d'étalement donnant une valeur de corrélation maximale, dans lequel ladite détection par corrélation est démarrée à partir d'un temps au cours duquel une valeur de corrélation maximale est détectée par ledit premier moyen de détection par corrélation (21 à 24).
  23. Récepteur selon la revendication 22, comprenant en outre :
    - un moyen de mémoire de phase synchronisé (24A) de premiers codes d'étalement destiné à stocker B positions de temps dans un ordre de grandeur décroissant des valeurs de corrélation dominantes correspondantes détectées par le premier moyen de détection de corrélation où B est un entier naturel ;
    - un moyen de détection de synchronisation de deuxièmes codes d'étalement destiné à effectuer une détection par corrélation, de manière séquentielle, entre un signal reçu et des codes obtenus en multipliant ledit premier code d'étalement par B codes d'étalement desdits deuxièmes codes d'étalement de stations de base contiguës à une station de base actuelle, avertie par la station de base actuelle, où ladite détection par corrélation est démarrée à partir des positions de temps stockées sur ledit moyen de mémoire de synchronisation (25A à 28)de premiers codes d'étalement ; et
    - un moyen destiné à détecter quels deuxièmes canaux d'étalement correspondent aux B positions de temps.
  24. Récepteur selon la revendication 23, comprenant en outre :
    - un moyen de détection de trajets multiples destiné à détecter des trajets multiples pour chaque station de base en détectant des corrélations entre ledit signal reçu et des codes obtenus en multipliant ledit premier code d'étalement par des deuxièmes codes d'étalement d'une station de base actuelle et de stations de base contiguës autour de la position de temps dudit moyen de mémoire de phases synchronisées de premiers codes d'étalement, dans lequel ledit moyen de détection de niveau reçu met en oeuvre, dans une deuxième recherche et des recherches suivantes, des recherches autour d'une position de temps d'un trajet obtenu à partir d'une recherche précédente.
  25. Récepteur selon la revendication 24, dans lequel, lorsqu'une structure de trames est utilisée et comporte des parties étalées uniquement par un premier code d'étalement particulier pour un ou plusieurs symboles d'informations, ledit moyen de détection de niveau reçu supprime une recherche au niveau de positions de symboles d'informations étalées uniquement par ledit premier code d'étalement particulier.
  26. Système de communication mobile destiné à transmettre un signal comprenant une pluralité de symboles d'informations étalés en utilisant un premier code d'étalement et un deuxième code d'étalement, ledit premier code d'étalement ayant une première période égale à une période de symbole d'informations, et ledit deuxième code d'étalement ayant une seconde période plus longue que M fois la période de ladite période de symbole d'informations, où M est un entier naturel égal ou supérieur à un, ledit système de communication mobile ;
    un émetteur comportant un moyen destiné à masquer ledit deuxième code d'étalement pour M symboles à des intervalles synchronisés avec ladite seconde période lors d'un double étalement dudit signal ; et
    un récepteur comportant un moyen destiné à détecter le temps de réception dudit deuxième code d'étalement à partir d'un signal reçu pour M symboles, au cours desquels ledit deuxième code d'étalement est masqué.
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